A 13-year-old Michigan boy armed only with a slingshot, a marble, and a rock is being hailed a hero after hitting a 17-year-old suspect in the head and stopping his 8-year-old sister from being kidnapped. In a remarkable interview with 9 & 10 News, Owen Burns revealed that he was playing video games after school … Read more
A Rhode Island man jailed for 260 years in prison for producing child pornography involving prepubescent children fainted in court when the judge read out his sentence. Thomas Goodman, 45, was told his crimes showed “depravity beyond comprehension” by Judge John McConnell at the US District Court in Providence. The paedophile pleaded guilty to eight counts of production … Read more
A 36-year-old mother in Texas accused of abusing her husband and physically and emotionally torturing her children — even trying to put one of them in a hot oven — was arrested this week following a standoff with a SWAT team. Lul N. Top was taken into custody on Monday and charged with six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly … Read more
MACHIAS, Maine (BDN) — In a case involving one of Maine’s worst-ever cases of police corruption, a former candidate for Washington County sheriff who worked as a police officer in eastern coastal Maine for nearly 20 years was sentenced to serve 4 years in prison on drug and gun charges. Jeffrey Bishop, 55, originally faced … Read more
What began as a routine phone call quickly spiraled into a nightmare for Jurek Wasowski. “I am devastated,” Wasowski lamented, reflecting on the scam that upended his life. It was a summer day when Wasowski’s phone rang. “I never answer calls from unknown numbers, but at that moment, I happened to be occupied and picked … Read more
A shooting during the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade in Missouri has resulted in one fatality and 21 injuries, officials report. Among the injured, eight were in critical condition initially, with seven facing potentially life-threatening injuries. Notably, nine children sustained injuries, but all are anticipated to recover. Authorities have detained three suspects linked … Read more
A 21-year-old Mississippi mother was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after she admitted to repeatedly slamming her 2-month-old daughter on the concrete in what the district attorney said was an “unexplainable and heinous crime.” Multiple witnesses reported seeing Makaylia Shaylynn Jolley “grabbing a baby by the ankles and slamming the … Read more
A woman who made a series of false rape claims leading to 60 investigations has been jailed following work by specialist detectives. Cathy Richardson made a series of allegations against two men between January and May last year. These allegations led to officers carrying out 60 investigations. As part of these investigations, one of the … Read more
A 39-year-old attorney in Texas will spend less than six months behind bars after admitting to sneaking abortion-inducing drugs into his soon-to-be ex-wife’s beverages for weeks after learning about her pregnancy. Harris County District Court Judge Andrea Ball on Wednesday ordered Mason Herring to serve a sentence of 180 days in jail and an additional 10 years of probation, court … Read more
“The time lost with my 14-month-old child, who would come home exhausted and nearly unresponsive, is particularly heartbreaking,” one mother tells Inside Edition Digital. She says that she even took her daughter to the doctor because of her exhaustion. A former daycare director will serve six months in prison after admitting that she gave toddlers … Read more